Medicine Has a Disturbing Problem Related to the Treatment of Women

The “secret” isn’t out because it’s always been there, and the failure of medicine and medical education to address bias against women is being aired. Is it a leftover of an era when the physician was a “god,” is it sexism disguised as a profession, or is it the effect of biased and dismissive teaching in medical school and residency programs? No matter where its corrosive effect on medical treatment originated, it's not the issue. The issue is that it must be called out in the service of providing lifesaving and adequate, timely treatment. We see this in a horrific number of <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/healthequity/features/maternal-mortality/index.html#:~:text=Black%20women%20are%20three%20times,structural%20racism%2C%20and%20implicit%20bias." rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Black women dying in childbirth</a>, where there was no reason for them not to survive. Compared to White women, Black women have a three times higher risk of dying from a pregnancy-related cause. Numerous factors, such as variations in the standard of healthcare, underlying chronic illnesses, institutional racism, and unconscious bias, are to blame for these discrepancies. <a href="https://medium.com/beingwell/medicine-has-a-disturbing-problem-related-to-the-treatment-of-women-48e587849241">Click Here</a>